Egg-cellent news! The first California condor eggs of the season have been laid at our wildlife conservation center, and more could be on the way.

If you can, be nice to yourself and go birding this weekend.

🪶 Enjoy your snacks and have a great weekend!

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Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

🪶Register for the A Wolfe-Ryder-Pyle (WRP) Workshop: practical applications for your banding data presented by IBP's MAPS Coordinator, Danielle Kaschube, on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada). Important registration info in thread (1/3)

Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961

🪶 With help from from @tracyaviary.bsky.social and @longpointbirds.bsky.social we revived the MoSI International Internship this past fall.

This little Black-throated Blue Warbler isn't gonna get used for her original intended purpose so here she is for Warbler Wednesday! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

IBP scientists are presenting their research at The Wildlife Society's Western Chapter meeting in Monterey, CA this week. 🪶🐝. This thread is a list of their presentations. Check it out! 1/7

🪶 The answer to this week's #BitOBird quiz is....Long-tailed Duck! It was a tie! Congrats winners @keyless.bsky.social and naomi#BitOBird! Don't worry if you missed it this week, we'll post another quiz next Monday at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT.

Here's the clue for this week's #BitOBird game! Can you ID this bird from just this little bit? (Note: we stick to North American birds, if not we’ll tell you.) 1st to reply w/ the correct answer gets bird nerd bragging rights. If you're stumped, we'll post the answer in 2 hrs 🪶

I'm sorry I forgot to post #BitOBird. I was trying to idenitfy the hawk I just saw.... Belated #BitOBird headed your way at 12pm ET/11am CT/10 am MT/9am PT!

Sorry I missed our meeting. I was staring out my window hoping the hawk would come back.

Sorry I'm not prepared for our meeting. I was trying to identify the hawk I just saw.

🪶 Cedar Waxwings have been seen in 49/50 states this month (sorry Hawaii.) If you head outside this weekend, maybe you'll see one. Hope you find something beautiful.

🪶 Imagined Bird Conversations

🪶House Finches don't get a lot of ❤️ because they're common, but these familiar birds have a cheery song (listen to video below) that you'll start hearing a lot more soon. Male House Finches sing year-round, but not as much from Oct to Feb. We're starting to hear them sing again when the ☀️ shines.

Cockatoos like to dip boring food in tasty yogurt www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

🪶 If you need a breather, take a minute to listen to Common Loons (and a Barred Owl) call on a northern lake in late summer. (Bonus appearance by an alarmed sparrow of some sort?)

🪶 The answer to this week's #BitOBird quiz is....Lesser Goldfinch! Congrats to our winner #BitOBird Master Dane St George#BitOBird#BitOBird Don't worry if you missed it this week, we'll post another quiz next Monday at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT.

Here's the clue for this week's #BitOBird game! Can you ID this bird from just this little bit? (Note: we stick to North American birds, if not we’ll tell you.) 1st to reply w/ the correct answer gets bird nerd bragging rights. If you're stumped, we'll post the answer in 2 hrs 🪶

🪶Snowy Owl

It's Thrasher Thursday! Enjoy this Sage Thrasher, which is also known as the "Mountain Mockingbird." Play with the sound on to find out why. Sage Thrashers are actually more closely related to mockingbirds than they are the rest of the North American Thrashers. 🪶

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

Today has been.... 🪶

🪶 The Chickadee's popsicle.

🪶 The answer to this week's #BitOBird quiz is....White-throated Sparrow! Congrats to naomi#BitOBirdwho did it again ! Don't worry if you missed it this week, we'll post another quiz next Monday at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT.

Sound on! It’s that time of year! Bosque del Apache snow geese arriving at sunrise. Counting the days! ❤️ #birds #ayearforart #wildlife #newmexico

Here's the clue for this week's #BitOBird game! Can you ID this bird from just this little bit? (Note: we stick to North American birds, if not we’ll tell you.) 1st to reply w/ the correct answer gets bird nerd bragging rights. If you're stumped, we'll post the answer in 2 hrs 🪶

Have a great weekend. Hope you get to enjoy some sunshine on your face! 🪶

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

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HOLA! 🪶

🪶 The answer to this week's #BitOBird quiz is....Grace's Warbler! Congrats to our winner naomi#BitOBird! Don't worry if you missed it this week, we'll post another quiz next Monday at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT.

Here's the clue for this week's #BitOBird game! Can you ID this bird from just this little bit? (Note: we stick to North American birds, if not we’ll tell you.) 1st to reply w/ the correct answer gets bird nerd bragging rights. If you're stumped, we'll post the answer in 2 hrs 🪶

Welp, it's Monday. Time to dive into the week like this Merlin. Good luck friends! 🪶

Acadian Flycatcher migratory routes rewritten. In spring, most of the migration takes a largely land-based western circum-Gulf path. In fall, they take an easterly route through Florida and across the western Caribbean, bypassing most of Texas. Most fall Acadians in Texas are misidentified.

Need a bird 🪶 break?

Hooded merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus, on the water at Friday Harbor, San Juan Island 🪶🌿 buff.ly/QfY1LVr

#ThirdEyelidThursday! meets #ThrasherThursday! Curve-billed #thrasher in the big mesquite tree in my backyard has the #thirdeyelid up 😲 #bird #birdphotography 🪶

This winter's @instbirdpop.bsky.social thank you card might be my favorite one yet! I painted a pair of Sandhill Cranes investigating Ackerson Meadow in #Yosemite, where ongoing restoration of the meadow did actually draw in some of these birds during our 2025 banding season! 🎨 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt 🌎

🪶 Happy Wrensday!

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

🪶 The answer to this week's #BitOBird quiz is....Yellow-rumped Warbler! Congrats to our winner @foxyvalli.bsky.social! Don't worry if you missed it this week, we'll post another quiz next Monday at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT.

Here's the clue for this week's #BitOBird game! Can you ID this bird from just this little bit? (Note: we stick to North American birds, if not we’ll tell you.) 1st to reply w/ the correct answer gets bird nerd bragging rights. If you're stumped, we'll post the answer in 2 hrs 🪶

In mid-Dec. Santa brought IBP's Southwest Avian Ecologist, Harry Jones, a Palm Warbler for his Flagstaff, AZ Christmas Bird Count. Palm Warblers typically spend the non-breeding season on the coasts of the Southeastern US, Florida and the Caribbean (although small numbers winter on the CA coast.) 🪶

Happy New Year! 🪶🦉

According to Scandinavian tradition, feeding the birds on Christmas and/or New Year's Day brings luck in the New Year. Try putting out a little treat for the birds tomorrow- at the very least you'll have some happy feathered friends. 🪶